As a new strategy for speech suppression, this is brilliant. Want to protest at this government-owned public forum [which, actually, FRCC declares isn’t even public]? Fine. But you should know some of the guards we hired have itchy trigger fingers, and sometimes the gardeners leave pit traps with feces-smeared punji sticks, and we’re not going to protect you from violent counter-protesters, and you have to sign a waiver that we’re not liable for any of that. Where is your First Amendment now?

What I like most, however, are Popehat‘s concluding remarks:

Sometimes you have to ask—who drafts these things? Did their counsel review it? Has their counsel read any First Amendment cases whatsoever? Does their counsel have a debilitating head injury, or some sort of tenure?

That last line is so good, I wish I had come up with it myself. (In fact, I would go as high as $17 to buy it from its author and claim it for future use.) I hope to see more—many more—verbal skewerings of FRCC in the days to come. With a policy as hilariously unconstitutional as this one, there’s more than enough room for everyone to join the fun.